Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-02-24
MIR Ayp.MRs. BowsER.

.. taking time to leave his hat and
..oat on the hall rack.
49, of our relations dead!"
Citations? Nav! Mrs. Bowser, for
nost two or three weeks | have been
dIorinr a surprise for you-a great sur
HOW much milk do yon use around
I house daily"
Three quarts of milk and pint OF
cam" ..r Ara
80 il twenty -four cents. You call 1t
N. bnt what is it? A compound OF
l nl and water. which must kill US inside
five years" -,
alnda are you going to change milk
.r1actly. Mrs. Bowser. I am going to
NV own milkman after this!'
You aren't going Toto"
.yes I'm going to buy cow"
HOW foolish! You might just as well
and buy a flock of sheep"
M. Bowser, I'm going to buy cow"
at ends it. | am not going to paw
ga week for chalk and water When
= keep COW on seventy-fve cents
lpk and nave lIDLu tph w ACNANS@A'
arts of pure milk daily"
But YOU always get cheated on such
ings."
kDoIY That's all you know about 1t!
hen don't make % per cent. want to
i licked. A COW will be the best paying
vestment we ever made. just figure for
nrself. There are twelve quarts of rich
Tx per day, at six cents per quart.
ats seventy-two cents per day or S5.O4
week. Take out seventy-five cents as
cost of her keeping, and you have
far profit of $4,29. Is that swindleY
can't use over four quarts per day,
4 can therefore sell eight to the neigh
IS Just speak to Green and Smiths
ks, will you?
E'Mr Bowser, don't you remember our
~
$Pig! pig! What has Durham COW
to do With short-horn pigY And
hides your own base conduct killed
animal. Mrs. Bowser don't you dare
tempt any tricks on my COW. L don't
mt scandal, but I'll divorce you If
ever look cross-eyed at her."
d Well, wen see how you'll come out"
Won, yes-throw cold water on my
orts to give you all the comforts of
It's a wonder to me that | don't
discouraged and go to the gutter as
ny a good man has"
%1arly next morning woman appeared
Nh COW and calf, having them tied
hind her wagon. The calf was tied as
az the COW, and l noticed that 1T
ned to be doing its best to keep
ay from her. This seemed so singular
NJ I went to the back door to speak to
Bowser about it, but he promptly
y I'd 20 me:
"A Get back there! Do you want to get
COW excited and her blood heated
#He daid for this new mich COW and
iced COW and calf in the barn, and aft
\ giving them au hour to quiet down
came in for me- After looking the
= nal over l asked:
#Mr. Bowser how old is that calf"
Il Three weeks"
RAnd that COW is its mother?"
les mother? You don't think she's its
lie or grandfather, do you? You must
getting soft in the head"
b. you notice that she wont own it ?
there she's ready to cripple it if 1t
mes near hertz
d Mrs. Bowser you go and attend to
gossip and that wall-eyed baby, and
bit you dare to come near this barn
Ain. You have become cross.eyed and
"a headed"
"a went in. hut two hours later, when he
butcher up to buy the calf, !
ped out and heard the man say
n That's the way of it, Bowser. That
& her calf any more shan you are
een yictoria's brother. The COW may
all tight, however; she looks like a
~ mixer
he calf was driven away, and Mr..
wser put in the afternood at making q
k-stool and fixing buttons on the
Ts horns. After supper he went out
MIXED, and as ne brought in a pail
II full he set it on the kitchen table
the complacent remark:
Might have got six quarts more but
tired
VI made a great ado about drinking
&c glasses for supper, and the cook wat
around the neighbOrhood to drum uI
tomers. He held me in lofty contemp '
while, but finally melted enough tc
uire:
Well, did you taste any chalk il
;r
No, but did you observe that it had al
tasteSn
what do you mean?"
Il that calf didn't belong to her wha
be inference?"
ne rose up, turned as white as a sheet
after a great effort he managed tt
The inference is that you don't know
olgh to come in when it rains! Mrs
"ser' you killed OFF my hens, end yoI
Used the death of my pig. Take car,
you consplre with my COW! There j
u''l 10 which human being can b,
hed,'
NOthlng further was said until the mex
Fhlng when the quantity of mill
oPped of TO four quarts. / began t
9's'' wonder and amazement, but Mr.
+'er interrupted me with:
1 a'dnt expect even that much thi
ulhS. She il grieving for her calf.
quantity At night was the same
Af. bowser's marble brow wore lool
aAhIety. At the end of week tn
mad fallen to three quarts at
aug and even with Mr. Bowser feed
ia pounds of meal per day. Then
red TO observe:
It bowser, | was satisfied from tn
va, you had been swindled. Tha